Wevorce: Startup streamlines the messy divorce process

Could WeVorce have been a better answer for the briefly married Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries? AP photo

No longer feeling the love? A new San Francisco start-up has developed technology to help streamline the divorce process and to help couples make a clean break.

Divorce attorneys can use Wevorce to manage a divorce. The software guides the two sides through the break-up, helping to monitor the required paperwork, working with attorneys, financial advisers and family counselors and coming up with an amicable settlement and custody plan.

One of the goals for Wevorce is to keep families from getting locked into a custody battle and having to go to court to hash out the divorce, said Wevorce founder Michelle Crosby, whose parents went through a messy divorce when she was a child.

The company also estimates that the software could help cut the cost of a divorce from $27,000 to less than $10,000. So far, about 30 attorneys and 100 families have used and tested the service before Wednesday’s public launch. In all but about one, Wevorce helped to keep them out of court.